2008年12月24日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China stocks fall; funding hopes buoy airlines (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2008 03:24 AM CST

AP - Chinese stocks extended losses Wednesday, with heavyweight shares leading the decline amid worries over their earnings outlook.

Chinese tainted milk scandal company bankrupt (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2008 03:00 AM CST

AP - A Chinese court has declared bankrupt the company at the center of a scandal over tainted milk — blamed for killing six children and sickening almost 300,000 more, one of the company's owners said Wednesday.

Sino-U.S. trade ties face test amid global slump (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Dec 2008 12:54 AM CST

Chinese workers make clothes at a textile company in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu province in this December 10, 2005 file photo. Trade frictions between Beijing and Washington are expected to grow amid a deepening world recession and as U.S. interest groups demand President-elect Barack Obama put 'tough on China' trade talk into action. (China Newsphoto/Reuters)Reuters - Trade frictions between Beijing and Washington are expected to grow amid a deepening world recession and as U.S. interest groups demand President-elect Barack Obama put "tough on China" trade talk into action.


Court says China firm in milk scare files for bankruptcy (AFP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2008 12:23 AM CST

A mother holds her baby at a children's hospital in Beijing in late September during the height of the China toxic milk scandal. The firm that sparked a nationwide crisis in which 300,000 children fell ill and six died has been declared bankrupt, a major New Zealand shareholder has said.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - The Chinese firm at the centre of a nationwide tainted milk crisis that sickened nearly 300,000 children and killed six has filed for bankruptcy, a judge said on Wednesday.


China protests US import duties at WTO: report (AFP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 11:57 PM CST

The WTO headquarters in Geneva in November. China has protested at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over US anti-dumping and countervailing duties imposed on some Chinese-made products, state media reported Wednesday.(AFP/File/Nicholas Ratzenboeck)AFP - China has protested at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over US anti-dumping and countervailing duties imposed on some Chinese-made products, state media reported Wednesday.


U.S. rebuffs China call for 17 Guantanamo suspects (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 11:25 AM CST

An image reviewed by the US military shows journalists inspecting the closed 'Camp X-Ray' at US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, December 9, 2008. (Mandel Ngan/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - China said on Tuesday it wants 17 Muslim Chinese terror suspects returned if the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is closed by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.


China urges US to prevent trade protectionism (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 06:28 AM CST

AP - China and the U.S. should combat protectionism as the global economic crisis worsens, Beijing said Tuesday, in response to a trade case by Washington that accuses China of unfairly promoting goods for export.

China calls for return of Guantanamo Bay inmates (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 06:13 AM CST

Rebiya Kadeer, an ethnic Chinese Uighur leader from Zenjiang Province, China, speaks about the Uighurs in Guantanamo outside federal court in Washington, Monday, Nov. 24, 2008. A federal appeals court expressed skepticism Monday about a judge's order releasing 17 Turkic Muslims from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into the United States.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - China said Tuesday it wants Chinese detainees at Guantanamo Bay to be returned to China if the detention center is closed by President-elect Barack Obama.


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